After a traumatising breakup, a young city woman takes the spur of the moment decision to accept a job as a private teacher to the daughter of a rich aristocrat in the small town of Grenlae. She doesn't care that the townsfolk is superstitious, or that she is not allowed in the left wing of Bryn Du, the Lord's mansion. However, the more she experiences, the more she comes to believe that something wicked the roaming the halls, and that the townspeople might not be as easily fooled as she believed at first.